Home favorite Alexander Kristoff defended his camp at perfection to land his third win in two weeks after the RideLondon Classic and the European championship in the unconventional finishing venue of the military airport of Bardufoss surrounded by tanks and planes who gave an air show to the crowd. He outsprinted French up and coming rider Hugo Hofstetter of Cofidis and Italy's Andrea Pasqualon who moved up to second place overall. He's only two seconds down on race leader Dylan Teuns who...

“I wasn't surprised that we had to ride almost all day at the front of the peloton because yesterday we didn't want to do any work so we had to take our responsibilities today. It was ok because we only had to use two guys. I need all my team-mates in the next two days. The second bonus I took today is important but I was trying to take three seconds! I went off road because I had some troubles. It was difficult to take that one second but at the end that second might count. It'll need to...